Notepad and File Explorer have supported dark mode for a while now. This isn't new in 23H2. Nice to see they're adding dark theme to more apps though. Also, Task Manager has been dark for a while as well.
Virtual drives? That's going to be really useful! Side Note: It's really refreshing with a guy that actually goes through things and reviews them all the while having the bravery and the professionality to change his opinion. It increases your credibility a lot. Kudos!
Can someone explain why one would use a virtual hdd on my OS drive, over partitioning the primary drive and assigning it a different drive letter? aside from dynamic sizing. just as the whole vhd can be transferred, i'd think files and folders off a partition could also be as easily backed up or transferred. as for file isolation and protection, wouldn't any malicious modification to the vhd take out the entire drive, especially if BitLocker locked?
Features I'd like to see: First, the ability to turn off the "Recommended" section of the Start Menu and regain that space for pinned apps. At the very least, this should be a Group Policy setting for Enterprise and Education deployments. Second, the ability to revert to the classic right-click context menus as they are in Windows 10. As with the first feature request I mentioned, this should be possible via Group Policy for Enterprise and Education deployments at the very least. Lastly, I still prefer 7-Zip for all my archival needs. It's very small, lightweight, and free. It allows you to double-click-to-open files from just about every compressed file type in existence.
As a tablet user I'd like to add, on top of everything you mentioned, customizable gestures. The left swipe gesture is now basically useless since it opens widgets which I never use.
Creating virtual harddrives has been in windows since windows 7 - it's still there - It's in disk management. What has changed is that it's easier to get to it.
.vhd support was in Windows 7, it was just hidden behind the Disk Management applet in Administrative Tools. Windows 8 expanded on this and allowed you to natively mount .iso's and .vhd's directly from File Explorer and you could also eject these virtual drives as well. 23H2 did nothing more than add already existing functionality to the settings panel.
I think it is just made available with the Dev drive feature, which is the actual highlight. I agree creating and using vdhx is supported since years now, but it was kept for people who were using HyperV (Pro/Enterprise versions of Windows) and wsl, never for normal user.
I would love to see native support for editing the windows context menu. (Right click menu) There is so much in it that I would like to see just GONE without having to put up with the more options in the condensed view that Windows 11 forces on us!
💯 I've gone to the trouble of editing the registry several times recently to remove, add, and edit context menu commands. A native context menu editing tool would be an absolute game-changer
It's so easy to open the registry editor (windows key and letter r and type regedit) and add the key "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve" leave out the quotation marks. This will revert the context menu to that of Windows 10.
Windows has had VHD support as early as Win7. Adding the options in Settings is new as well as mounting via mouse. Also of note is its not just .rar (pronounced rawr lol) but about a dozen other compression formats being natively supported. I'm sure explorer integration will be worked out by release but then again sometimes MSFT takes 2 years to do the simplest things. Great vid btw. I like being able to see what's coming w/o having to open VMWare, update, then scouring the OS.
@@timothygibney159 Thanks for the precision. I've been using VHDs for so many years on Windows Pro and Education versions I never realized they weren't available in the Home edition. I was also thinking "What the hell that's been available for 15 years!" ;)
I am SO looking forward to taskbar labels being able to be un hid again. That is the most infuriating thing about 11 to me. I have been using the task bar labels for 30 years and couldn't deal with it so much that I paid for Start All Back just for that purpose! I make money off my computers and need them to actually WORK. My work programs really want to be updated all the time, so sticking with 10 messed them up. Only real reason I went to 11. They are much less buggy on 11.... Buggy as hell, but less so. Your videos have been a great help over the last couple years. Thank you.
Virtual drives already available on Windows 10 (Pro at least) from recollection. I used this feature a few years ago and yep it had all the settings available to create the VD's that were shown in the Windows 11 Beta Update today. It is there, you just got to know where to look. All the best peeps! Peace EDIT NOTE: Apologies as I just scrolled down and noticed similar comments.
From Windows 8.1 virtual drives were already embedded in disk management msc. In previous versions of windows if you mount a VHD or VHDx drive after the restart it isnt auto mounted. (i used scripts for mounting, the only method). These feature evolved or not in Windows 11 ??
Been using it myself for a little while. I enjoy it. Dynamic Lighting does work well for me with my Razer Blackwidow Keyboard. I strongly dislike using the additional apps to control the lighting, having it be a part of personalization is a nice touch.
My genuine, biggest gripe with W11 is that I have to use third party programs, which often break btw, to re-enable taskbar movement. More specifically, having the option to use my task bar vertically, on either the left or right side of my screen.
@FlyingMonkies325 you may not see or understand why you need to move the taskbar but, if I want the taskbar on the left side of the screen, lets us pretend I have a reason, justification, need, want or not, about my comfort.
I'm a IT Security Professional and one of the biggest complaints i get from my clients is that FDE(Bitlocker) only protects the drive when the computer is shutdown. With this new feature, you can encrypt a virtual drive within the OS and you can lock it so if the computer is left on, no one can access it. This feature is truly amazing and needed badly. I'm glad to see that we will be getting it soon.
Bitlocker does protect the drive via TPM through windows hello. If the user leaves their self logged in while leaving the computer unattended…. We’ll bitlocker isn’t going to help with that. As for bitlocker not working at all when the computer is on… do you have documentation that supports this or are you just repeating rumors?
Data must be un encrypted for the computer to be able to use the data. When you unlock the laptop through the Bitlocker screen when you first turn on your computer, from that point on, the data is NOT protected. FDE(Full Disk Encryption) can't help you if you leave your computer on and leave it unattended.@@Zinojn
RAR is a proprietary format under copyright, along with RAR's compression applications and libraries to Alexander Roshal, brother of Eugene Roshal. RAR files are the native format for WinRAR software and can only be created through this tool which is licensed to win.rar
Same scenario most likely applies to the background pictures displayed by Windows Spotlight. If they're not licensed for full public use, they won't ever be copiable.
They don't give you the option to save the background of spotlight because you might decide to keep one image at some point. Spotlight is an advertisement. For instance, countries can pay MS to display their own places for touristic purposes. Keep in mind it could be done extremely easily. The photo is already being saved in some data format as cache.
Great video - I'm still not ready for Windows 11 yet, too many clicks to get to features that used to be one click. The VHD thing, you can do that in Windows 10 along with BitLocker encrypted drives. Use the Hyper-V manager and you can create VHDs and mount and eject them from Windows explorer.
The windows 11 AI selected a UA-cam in answer to your question that showed how to set the refresh rate on a monitor. It looks like the UA-cam was made by a private party with the channel name Northern Viking Everyday. This suggests that if you wanted to get wider exposure to your channel through Windows 11 23H2, you could anticipate the videos that AI will search for and create a series of specifically targeted explanatory videos that it would latch onto and suggest to all Windows 11 users.
You can create and attach VHD's in the disk management snap-in since at least Windows 7. But that said I will certainly be eager to start using the settings app implementation. Especially mouse click mounting
Pretty nice changes. I still highly dislike the new Start menu which is quite limited imo. Also wish right button context menu could be reverted to W10 style. I get the change for some like tablet style device users, but I can't deny it. I love the W10 style much more. Gotta love MS for baking stuff like better file extraction into base system. I really dig the change that it's not mandatory to do program set X installs on every system, like 7zip, vlc etc. Better than MacOS imo out-of-box.
Checks? Man, that took me back a whole bunch of years. Do people still use paper checks? 70 years old here and still building and repairing computers. I've been using WIN 11 for 2 years now as an "Insider." I'm a BETA user of the new AI assistance program and I love it. I no longer have to wade through all the extemporaneous crap that doesn't apply to my questions anymore. It is quite impressive. Windows has come a long way. I'm new to your site and found you by accident while scrolling through some MS questions. I enjoyed your video. Kudos for the great information. Upgrade and enjoy folks.
When I first installed Windows 11, a couple of hours later I rolled my system back to Windows 10. The reasons are this: couldn't create folders in the Start Menu and Task Manager was missing when right clicking on the Task Bar. It took them a while, but Microsoft has put those features into Windows 11. Currently I'm running Windows 11 Pro and am satisfied with the OS.
Thanks for the informative video. Some comments: Virtual drive support has been in Windows since Windows 10, it was just buried in Disk Management. But it looks like in 23H2 they have made it a little easier to use -- now there's a kind of wizard approach where you answer all the questions and it creates the VHD file, attaches it to your PC, formats the virtual drive, creates a volume, and assigns a drive letter. Under the previous (Win 10) interface, you had to do each of these steps manually. But the feature has definitely been there for a while, including the Bitlocker support. EDIT: I see now that the difference is that it's now in the Home edition whereas it used to only be in Pro and Enterprise. So never mind, I guess, though I do wonder what use the typical home user would have for virtual drives. But making them easier to use is a good thing, regardless. Any idea if Microsoft has in this version plugged the "holes" that allow Windows 11 to be installed without a Microsoft account? It seems like every time they release an update, they remove all ways people have found to do that, and then people have to figure out a new way around it. It's like the world's most ridiculous arms race. I'd love to know if they're continuing to push this stuff, despite the fact that everyone hates it. Finally, a question: have they yet restored the ability to turn off the "overflow area" feature for the Notification Area/System Tray/whatever we're calling it this week? You used to be able to tell Windows 10 to "Always Show All Icons in the Notification Area." This is extremely important for me as a person who supports several hundred users. I want to be able to say to them "click on the blue squiggly icon in the lower right" (making that up, but you get the idea) without having to explain that the blue squiggly icon may only appear if they first click the minuscule little arrow that some of my more visually challenged users can't even see. That setting disappeared in Windows 11 -- it still appears in group policy, but it does nothing. Have they listened to the world on this one yet, or are we going to have to wait another year?
I wouldn't hold out hope for MS implementing file opening from within rar, 7zip etc. because depending on the setting used you have to decompress the entire file to extract/open a single file contained within, which is the default setting. It's one of the consequences of a greater compression ratio compared to zip.
I’ve nearly never used the Win file explorer. So unpractical. I’ve been using Total Commander for many years. 3rd party application, free of charge or small fee, double window / source -> destination, zip/unzip, etc. Really user friendly.
The day Microsoft changes Win 11 to support Quick Launch and Favorites toolbars (independent of browser bookmarks) on the main taskbar like Win 10 without third-party apps or registry hacks will be the day I'll be truly happy again. I've had the taskbar at the top with left-aligned icons since Win 95 and it's something I refuse to give up.
Thanks for this. I'm particularly curious about the virtual drive (VHDs) feature. As for compression formats, 7Zip is a preferred format for me. But it would be good if Windows could support all these most common compression formats. If not, I can just install the 7Zip tool as it supports almost all archive formats.
I'm pretty sure 23H2 supports 7z and a ton of other formats besides just RAR and ZIP. Should handle anything libarchive does. However I'm not sure if it supports creating archives of those types.
I would like Microsoft to add back WordPad in Windows 11. I need this program a lot and Microsoft removed it. That sucks and is unfair. Please add back WordPad to Windows 11.
Like you say, it looks like 23H2 doesn't give you the option to save the wallpaper image. But when you right-clicked on the example desktop image, I did notice that one of the menu options in the right-click was to "Search images with Google". But a couple of years ago, Google had to cripple that formerly great search option due to complaints about too many people using it to steal copyrighted images.
Also, the desktop spotlight images are cached in the folder of %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
> that formerly great search option due to complaints about too many people using it to steal copyrighted images. "steal", if it exists and it can be freely accessed on a webpage, it's free 🏴☠
Unfortunately for Microsoft, stats for Windows 11 remain stagnant as not many (including businesses) have upgraded to Windows 11 as they are still using Windows 10.
0:19 When someone says "I like Linux" nobody bats an eye. But when I say "I like Windows" then everyone loses their minds! - Joker. Jokes aside, it really shows that in the internet, you aren't allowed to have differing opinions
13:35 you can save the spotlight image or any desktop background image, is stored inside folder: c:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles\CachedImage_resolution_.jpg 25:00 sidenote , you (as many other reviewers) miss out that some apps, including paint and notepad got a settings menu(right side wheel), where you can change theme and other things.
Some really cool features in this one, W11 is getting closer and closer to being tempting to daily drive. Given that you're an ultrawide monitor user though, I'm surprised by how little flak I've heard you give MS for the continued avoidance of arguably the most basic taskbar functionality of all; moving it to the side to free up precious vertical screen space. I get that they really want that MacOS vibe for whatever reason, but their own forums and feedback hub make it pretty clear that this feature isn't quite the edge-case they like to pretend it is.
This. I absolutely hate that I can't use a vertical taskbar anymore. So far I've been using StartAllBack to fix this issue, but I really dislike having to buy a third party program to have such basic functionality.
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The Virtual drive is a great addition, I use it to make multi boot system, windows 10, windows 11 and linux mint so at startup I get the choice to start and run any system what's good is you still have access to all data whatever system you run. I must add that I did it by manually creating the virtual drives(just like this new addon does but manually) and installed the different systems using .iso's with if I remember, either ventoy or rufus following a tutorial.
Virtual Hard Drive is a big gamechanger. I so appreciate Microsoft for designing explorer to finally let tabs be opened on one window, it's a helpful feature. I personally don't care much about backing up data on my computer though, but I do back up on my external harddisk drive. Another upgrade I really like is that now we can have dark theme mode applied to all apps and whatever. I use dark themes for everything.
Thanks for the preview. Lots of new features to look forward to. There is a rumor that 23H2 will not be available to unsupported systems even with the current by-pass commands.
MS can easily push a scanner anytime they want within any update package to recheck a system, but yes, for a major update like this then I'd expect that scanner to be included as a pre-check.
I wouldn't be that sure. Imo as long as windows server is around, there will always be somewhat easy ways to install windows 11 on an incompatible system. Eg windows server never complains about compatibility. And it already runs on version 23H2
Amazing video, excited to see where win11 is going. But could you potentially make a video or short explaing how to fully disable widgets. I cant uninstall them and i never use them. They are annoying and i cant find what service they are to disable their startup. If anyone has an answer please let me know. And as always great video.
I'm probably wrong, but AI seems to be the lastest buzzword that has no practical use for most people. At least not any time really soon. I realize it will be used quite a bit behind the scenes, but for the individual user, in it's current form, it's just a toy.
Chat GPT is quite useful for a lot of text handling tasks like creating summaries, lists, translations and grammar/spelling corrections. It can write an email for you. And in some cases it's a superior search engine.
We'll see, but I don't know if it will catch on for most users. It seems like it has some pretty specific use cases, but you have to know what you are doing to be able to take advantage of it. I'm not sure that people will take the time to learn it. The number of people who can't even do a basic google search well is astonishing.@@lars9925
I like your videos. Could I make a suggestion? I think it would be neat if you could ID "chapters" or "segments" to the video. Hopefully that'd be possible. Thanks for the videos, keep up the good work!
By the time SkyNet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers all across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software, in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down.
I hate that they removed Clean Disk from MyPC->C->Properties... Now i need to write CLEAN in Start menu to find that setting... Question - WHY did they removed that option? It was here for years in any disk properties menu 😢
I got a new laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed last week. It was definitely a shock at first. But I'm getting used to it. I'm learning to use the search to get to things I need. I love having tabs on the file explorer. People don't like change. I get that. I'm not a power user. And I love learning new interfaces. I went through a phase where I was trying Linux distros just to try the interfaces.
I mean it's great people wanna try new things but most people work on system and really don't want to bother with learning something new and getting to know that it wasn't even better then old os.
There are rare cases where opening zip and rar files directly is not a good idea. Not all compressed files are images, so the best way is for user to choose if they want to enable or disable opening "zip" or "rar" files directly.
The RGB stuff doesn't change the color of your computer case anyway. For that you would need a different powder coating, or some paint, or markers, etc.
Just switched back to 11 after going back to 10 for a bit, and i must say.. It looks real cleaner than 10 does. The rounded corners just seem more comfortable to me and its honestly slowly becoming better and better, I like it so far and will keep trying it out :))
When I updated to 23H2 my monitor would lose signal randomly while playing Kingdom Come Deliverance, and the only way to recover would be to manually reboot the pc with power or reset button, so I uninstalled it. I'm not positive that was the issue but it started right after I installed it and it hasn't happened since I uninstalled it. So for now I'm sticking with 22H2.
Copilot: Easy - just install Windows 7! The last Windows-Version without bullshit! But unfortunatly it's not supportet anymore. So, I guess you have to switch to Linux to get a clean system! I'm sorry, but I have been build by Microsoft! :-(
Finally Windows 11 is becoming its own thing and not just a skin in top of 10. Desktop backup and developer mode and improved mouse feedback latency for games, better dpi for my 1440p monitors, and led management without relying on horrible software like Asus Crate or MSI mystic make this a must have from Windows 10
Im using w11 for a few months now ..and i dont miss w10 after using it for years...w11 feels faster also im still getting use to it but all new things require time to learn and get used to
@viewspace8020 there is an issue if u use unsupported hardware. If ur in 21h2 wanna upgrade to 23h2 u have to re install Windows... its a pain!. Since 23h2 is the last.. its worthless to upgrade
Spotlight on Desktop is a thing in 22H2... And FINALLY Never combine... however, I don't like how it pushes the other not open apps over, I want them to stay on the left, and then 'open windows' collect to the right - like XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 etc all did! Also, i'm on 22H2, Everything works in Dark mode, including Paint.... so I don't know what you have done with yours :)
i wish they could resolve performance issues, latency and stuff. Also making more easy to delete/ disable things that we don't use (also called bloatware), not to mention it also doesn't stay with some sneaky process/service/task in the background
still no 4k scaling 200% support in windows explorer, whenever you want to show icons full size. sometimes i wonder if those engineers did use their eyes before releasing software.
It's odd they removed file history from settings app but I guess they really want to force you to use one drive. I won't do it. But the other backup feature that is extremely useful and was never part of the settings app (though at one point you could access it via settings app) is the Windows 7 backup system, now called "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)". You can use it to do scheduled data backups but the real beauty of it is you can use it to create a bare metal restore backup of your current installation. And even if you didn't create the recovery disk - you can still install a fresh copy of windows, then restore the system backup from within the new installation. Very handy. Great for porting your OS to a new hard drive too.
The virtual drive needs to have its disk letter C: D: or whatever expanded to allow for a second letter or a number such as D1, D2, D3. This would allow virtual disks to be assigned to apps or to multiple uses. If assigned to an App then backing up a virtual drive automatically becomes a single app backup and data management would be easier especially if restores were needed.
There's so much legacy code that treats drive letters as a single character that this would be utterly impossible to implement without breaking everything. However, it could in theory be exposed to the operating system as a UNC path.
how is nobody mentioning the biggest change and improvement which is the option to set "never group taskbar buttons" and to re-enable "show labels" this is by far the biggest and most impactful change there is. I've been running and dealing with crashes on the Canary version of windows 11 just to have the never group taskbar buttons.
Great video, thanks! A feature I hope is that MS impliments label tags for files. I have a very large amount os FLACS and Wav files and would like a way to right click on a file and mark it with a tag and have it visual in the file explorer. Right now I use the app "Files" from the MS store, but it is very buggy.
Just like all previous versions, upgrades etc most new features people dont need, arent aware of, or if they do know of forget theyre there ...same on phones ios & android.... the vast majority of users just want and use the basic features and be able to find them easily...
Interesting, I had a hope when you showed the ungrouping. However, the one feature I really, really want - the ability to not have my task bar at the bottom!
Nice, I have been on Windows 11 now for about 2 years and its been fine, like windows 10 with missing features. I really like some of the items you talked about, it give me some ideas for the clients I support.
You can move tabs in 22h, it's just a "bit"... finicky, you have to move the tab you want to move a bit further then half the distance of the tab you want to move it next to, wait till that tab 'jumps' to it's new position and then let go of the tab. Anyway, does the "restore open windows" work when you had tabs open?
I wonder if we can finally reposition the "start panel" from the lower bottom of the screen to the right side of the screen as I am so hardwired to it that not having this particular option inW11 is a deal breaker to me.
Impossible to activate secure boot despite having followed several tutorials to modify the BIOS settings etc... etc... So impossible to update to Windows 11. Your video solved the problem, many thanks for this tutorial. You are my savior !
With the addition of 'open shell menu' and a few other tweaks, on my laptop, I am happy with windows 11. I'm still on win 7 for my other computers though. They are too well set to tasks to change.
People often disagree with me when I say this, but I REALLY wish Microsoft would add some tools to the desktop to sort icons such as either.... 1. Use a Fences-like solution where users can put files and icons into labelled boxes or 2. Add pages to the desktop, similar to what we have for smart phones, where the user can have several pages for keeping files and icons that are on their desktop on specific pages. To add to that, they should be able to label their desktop pages, as well. Anyway, for most office employees, this would help keep their shit more organized on their desktop. I can't tell you how many times people have come to our Desktop Support team saying that they can't find a file on their desktop, and it turns out that they ended up dragging it another folder because their desktop because it's so cluttered with icons.
I find the more I use Paint the more usefull it is , it's quick for explaining something to someone say over an email or use phone link to send as MMS, quick picture mod with arrows and text and making a universal diagram that doesn't need 3rd part software and so on.
I like the Bing Wallpaper app more than Windows Spotlight. The difference is that Bing is more up to date with the seasons and the pictures are more interresting for me personaly. 😀
Creating and attaching VHDs has been supported since Windows 10 via Computer Management -> Disk Management. So it's not a new feature, just something they have now incorporated into the Settings app that was previously less accessible.
I simply would like to have the ability to move the taskbar to the left side of the screen as I have found that it increase work productivity because I can see at glance on what file I want to click if I have multiple excels open at the same time.
Notepad and File Explorer have supported dark mode for a while now. This isn't new in 23H2. Nice to see they're adding dark theme to more apps though. Also, Task Manager has been dark for a while as well.
I was confused at first by this, but if you rewatch you will see he was only talking about Paint being newly dark moded in 23H2
When will they make the file copy dialog dark mode, it really sticks out and blinds me at night.
@@aftertheshowmoviepodcast good point
Probably Summer... of 2042.@@aftertheshowmoviepodcast
@@techlifebio Yeah, i'm on 22H2 and Paint is also in dark mode so, I dunno..
I love to see if they bring control panel back like it used to be but also keeping settings
As far as the beta is concerned, it's unchanged. I didn't include that in the video, but I did play with it and it's exactly the same.
It still exists.
CP is still there, but it's neutered a tad ...
@@Fantic156 Seems you know a lot about cp
Windows 12 will be take over the rest of the outdated items from 7 and 10
Virtual drives? That's going to be really useful!
Side Note: It's really refreshing with a guy that actually goes through things and reviews them all the while having the bravery and the professionality to change his opinion. It increases your credibility a lot. Kudos!
as a person who got infected by ransomware and lost all my business files, i see this feature as a lifesaver .
you can already create virtual drives in disk management in the computer management mmc. But it's nice they are bringing it into the settings app.
@@poolcoder1337 won't help you if they encrypt the vhd file. You need an off computer backup (cloud, or an unconnected physical disk)
@@techlifebioReally? I need to check that out as I was totally unaware of this. That's a really good tip, thanks you!
Can someone explain why one would use a virtual hdd on my OS drive, over partitioning the primary drive and assigning it a different drive letter? aside from dynamic sizing. just as the whole vhd can be transferred, i'd think files and folders off a partition could also be as easily backed up or transferred. as for file isolation and protection, wouldn't any malicious modification to the vhd take out the entire drive, especially if BitLocker locked?
Features I'd like to see: First, the ability to turn off the "Recommended" section of the Start Menu and regain that space for pinned apps. At the very least, this should be a Group Policy setting for Enterprise and Education deployments. Second, the ability to revert to the classic right-click context menus as they are in Windows 10. As with the first feature request I mentioned, this should be possible via Group Policy for Enterprise and Education deployments at the very least. Lastly, I still prefer 7-Zip for all my archival needs. It's very small, lightweight, and free. It allows you to double-click-to-open files from just about every compressed file type in existence.
You can revert to classic right click, just need a registry edit.
But you shouldn't need to have to do it that way@@Masters-rc9sc
And being able to set the taskbar to small. Even better, being able to resize it to anything like in most Linux desktops.
As a tablet user I'd like to add, on top of everything you mentioned, customizable gestures. The left swipe gesture is now basically useless since it opens widgets which I never use.
Being able to simply uninstall all of the crap would be the most useful, especially those god awful apps from the app store.
Creating virtual harddrives has been in windows since windows 7 - it's still there - It's in disk management. What has changed is that it's easier to get to it.
.vhd support was in Windows 7, it was just hidden behind the Disk Management applet in Administrative Tools. Windows 8 expanded on this and allowed you to natively mount .iso's and .vhd's directly from File Explorer and you could also eject these virtual drives as well. 23H2 did nothing more than add already existing functionality to the settings panel.
Was just about to post this. Disk Management / Actions / Create VHD. Come to think of it, the old way is much faster.
VHD was a thing in 2005. . . Way before Windows 7
The old way was much more hidden. It was unpopular as a feature as well
Dam just replied saying same thing
I think it is just made available with the Dev drive feature, which is the actual highlight. I agree creating and using vdhx is supported since years now, but it was kept for people who were using HyperV (Pro/Enterprise versions of Windows) and wsl, never for normal user.
I would love to see native support for editing the windows context menu. (Right click menu) There is so much in it that I would like to see just GONE without having to put up with the more options in the condensed view that Windows 11 forces on us!
shift right click or chris titus tech toolbox to restore it by default.
💯 I've gone to the trouble of editing the registry several times recently to remove, add, and edit context menu commands. A native context menu editing tool would be an absolute game-changer
It's so easy to open the registry editor (windows key and letter r and type regedit) and add the key "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve" leave out the quotation marks. This will revert the context menu to that of Windows 10.
Windows has had VHD support as early as Win7. Adding the options in Settings is new as well as mounting via mouse.
Also of note is its not just .rar (pronounced rawr lol) but about a dozen other compression formats being natively supported. I'm sure explorer integration will be worked out by release but then again sometimes MSFT takes 2 years to do the simplest things.
Great vid btw. I like being able to see what's coming w/o having to open VMWare, update, then scouring the OS.
"sometimes MSFT takes 2 years to do the simplest things", there are no simple things in the OS world. Only simple ideas.
Vhd only works with the pro and enterprise editions. This brings it to home
@@timothygibney159 Thanks for the precision. I've been using VHDs for so many years on Windows Pro and Education versions I never realized they weren't available in the Home edition. I was also thinking "What the hell that's been available for 15 years!" ;)
@@timothygibney159 I have the Home Single Language Version of Windows 10 and creating VHD's since I got it in 2018
Your icon is too perfect for this Caption: Man peeing on windows
I am SO looking forward to taskbar labels being able to be un hid again. That is the most infuriating thing about 11 to me. I have been using the task bar labels for 30 years and couldn't deal with it so much that I paid for Start All Back just for that purpose! I make money off my computers and need them to actually WORK. My work programs really want to be updated all the time, so sticking with 10 messed them up. Only real reason I went to 11. They are much less buggy on 11.... Buggy as hell, but less so. Your videos have been a great help over the last couple years. Thank you.
Virtual drives already available on Windows 10 (Pro at least) from recollection.
I used this feature a few years ago and yep it had all the settings available to
create the VD's that were shown in the Windows 11 Beta Update today.
It is there, you just got to know where to look. All the best peeps! Peace
EDIT NOTE: Apologies as I just scrolled down and noticed similar comments.
I've used that on Win 10 to mount ISO files of DVDs/BluRays
From Windows 8.1 virtual drives were already embedded in disk management msc.
In previous versions of windows if you mount a VHD or VHDx drive after the restart it isnt auto mounted. (i used scripts for mounting, the only method).
These feature evolved or not in Windows 11 ??
Windows Spotlight is available on Windows 11 Pro stock as well
@@gamamewXP had it too via third party programs.
Been using it myself for a little while. I enjoy it. Dynamic Lighting does work well for me with my Razer Blackwidow Keyboard. I strongly dislike using the additional apps to control the lighting, having it be a part of personalization is a nice touch.
My genuine, biggest gripe with W11 is that I have to use third party programs, which often break btw, to re-enable taskbar movement. More specifically, having the option to use my task bar vertically, on either the left or right side of my screen.
@FlyingMonkies325 you may not see or understand why you need to move the taskbar but, if I want the taskbar on the left side of the screen, lets us pretend I have a reason, justification, need, want or not, about my comfort.
I'm a IT Security Professional and one of the biggest complaints i get from my clients is that FDE(Bitlocker) only protects the drive when the computer is shutdown. With this new feature, you can encrypt a virtual drive within the OS and you can lock it so if the computer is left on, no one can access it. This feature is truly amazing and needed badly. I'm glad to see that we will be getting it soon.
Also can be done, including mouse click mounting, with something like veracrypt, which is how I currently manage encrypted volumes
@@techlifebio VERACRYPT is awesome
Bitlocker does protect the drive via TPM through windows hello. If the user leaves their self logged in while leaving the computer unattended…. We’ll bitlocker isn’t going to help with that.
As for bitlocker not working at all when the computer is on… do you have documentation that supports this or are you just repeating rumors?
Data must be un encrypted for the computer to be able to use the data. When you unlock the laptop through the Bitlocker screen when you first turn on your computer, from that point on, the data is NOT protected. FDE(Full Disk Encryption) can't help you if you leave your computer on and leave it unattended.@@Zinojn
I love your use of the zoom transition from looking at your monitor into looking at your capture feed directly.
RAR is a proprietary format under copyright, along with RAR's compression applications and libraries to Alexander Roshal, brother of Eugene Roshal. RAR files are the native format for WinRAR software and can only be created through this tool which is licensed to win.rar
Same scenario most likely applies to the background pictures displayed by Windows Spotlight. If they're not licensed for full public use, they won't ever be copiable.
They don't give you the option to save the background of spotlight because you might decide to keep one image at some point. Spotlight is an advertisement. For instance, countries can pay MS to display their own places for touristic purposes. Keep in mind it could be done extremely easily. The photo is already being saved in some data format as cache.
you can save any desktop background image from
c:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles\CachedImage_resolution_.jpg
Deprecate vs Depreciate ... The right word for dropping support for software is deprecate. Love the updates you bring just a friendly grammar jab :)
23H2 is missing the .RAR file extension for WinRAR archives. Request for it to be added by Microsoft.
Great video - I'm still not ready for Windows 11 yet, too many clicks to get to features that used to be one click.
The VHD thing, you can do that in Windows 10 along with BitLocker encrypted drives. Use the Hyper-V manager and you can create VHDs and mount and eject them from Windows explorer.
The windows 11 AI selected a UA-cam in answer to your question that showed how to set the refresh rate on a monitor. It looks like the UA-cam was made by a private party with the channel name Northern Viking Everyday. This suggests that if you wanted to get wider exposure to your channel through Windows 11 23H2, you could anticipate the videos that AI will search for and create a series of specifically targeted explanatory videos that it would latch onto and suggest to all Windows 11 users.
You can create and attach VHD's in the disk management snap-in since at least Windows 7. But that said I will certainly be eager to start using the settings app implementation. Especially mouse click mounting
This is why I wait for at least 1-2 years before tiptoeing into a new OS.
Pretty nice changes. I still highly dislike the new Start menu which is quite limited imo. Also wish right button context menu could be reverted to W10 style. I get the change for some like tablet style device users, but I can't deny it. I love the W10 style much more. Gotta love MS for baking stuff like better file extraction into base system. I really dig the change that it's not mandatory to do program set X installs on every system, like 7zip, vlc etc. Better than MacOS imo out-of-box.
i used a tweak to make the "show more options" the default like older win versions, deffo saves alot of frustration :)
@@AidanMacgregor-Personal Was it called Shift + Right-Click by chance?
I used to do that but you can change it with WinAeroTweaker or StartAllBack@@Mario583a
Checks? Man, that took me back a whole bunch of years. Do people still use paper checks? 70 years old here and still building and repairing computers. I've been using WIN 11 for 2 years now as an "Insider." I'm a BETA user of the new AI assistance program and I love it. I no longer have to wade through all the extemporaneous crap that doesn't apply to my questions anymore. It is quite impressive. Windows has come a long way. I'm new to your site and found you by accident while scrolling through some MS questions. I enjoyed your video. Kudos for the great information. Upgrade and enjoy folks.
End task is awesome! Always wondered why that wasnt available in taskbar.
Agreed, great addition. It totally should be on by default.
Wow ! Best New Features presentation I've ever seen.
Thanks ! :)
When I first installed Windows 11, a couple of hours later I rolled my system back to Windows 10. The reasons are this: couldn't create folders in the Start Menu and Task Manager was missing when right clicking on the Task Bar. It took them a while, but Microsoft has put those features into Windows 11. Currently I'm running Windows 11 Pro and am satisfied with the OS.
Why did you so choose Pro, if you don't mind me asking.
@@franks7968 Because I had a Windows 10 Pro license. I chose the Pro version of Windows 10 because of the option to turn off Windows hardware updates.
@@kel5423 Thanks 👍
Thanks for the informative video. Some comments:
Virtual drive support has been in Windows since Windows 10, it was just buried in Disk Management. But it looks like in 23H2 they have made it a little easier to use -- now there's a kind of wizard approach where you answer all the questions and it creates the VHD file, attaches it to your PC, formats the virtual drive, creates a volume, and assigns a drive letter. Under the previous (Win 10) interface, you had to do each of these steps manually. But the feature has definitely been there for a while, including the Bitlocker support. EDIT: I see now that the difference is that it's now in the Home edition whereas it used to only be in Pro and Enterprise. So never mind, I guess, though I do wonder what use the typical home user would have for virtual drives. But making them easier to use is a good thing, regardless.
Any idea if Microsoft has in this version plugged the "holes" that allow Windows 11 to be installed without a Microsoft account? It seems like every time they release an update, they remove all ways people have found to do that, and then people have to figure out a new way around it. It's like the world's most ridiculous arms race. I'd love to know if they're continuing to push this stuff, despite the fact that everyone hates it.
Finally, a question: have they yet restored the ability to turn off the "overflow area" feature for the Notification Area/System Tray/whatever we're calling it this week? You used to be able to tell Windows 10 to "Always Show All Icons in the Notification Area." This is extremely important for me as a person who supports several hundred users. I want to be able to say to them "click on the blue squiggly icon in the lower right" (making that up, but you get the idea) without having to explain that the blue squiggly icon may only appear if they first click the minuscule little arrow that some of my more visually challenged users can't even see. That setting disappeared in Windows 11 -- it still appears in group policy, but it does nothing. Have they listened to the world on this one yet, or are we going to have to wait another year?
Want it
I wouldn't hold out hope for MS implementing file opening from within rar, 7zip etc. because depending on the setting used you have to decompress the entire file to extract/open a single file contained within, which is the default setting. It's one of the consequences of a greater compression ratio compared to zip.
I’ve nearly never used the Win file explorer. So unpractical. I’ve been using Total Commander for many years. 3rd party application, free of charge or small fee, double window / source -> destination, zip/unzip, etc. Really user friendly.
The day Microsoft changes Win 11 to support Quick Launch and Favorites toolbars (independent of browser bookmarks) on the main taskbar like Win 10 without third-party apps or registry hacks will be the day I'll be truly happy again. I've had the taskbar at the top with left-aligned icons since Win 95 and it's something I refuse to give up.
Thanks for this. I'm particularly curious about the virtual drive (VHDs) feature. As for compression formats, 7Zip is a preferred format for me. But it would be good if Windows could support all these most common compression formats. If not, I can just install the 7Zip tool as it supports almost all archive formats.
Why windows should support these formats ? Why you say this ?
I'm pretty sure 23H2 supports 7z and a ton of other formats besides just RAR and ZIP. Should handle anything libarchive does. However I'm not sure if it supports creating archives of those types.
I would like Microsoft to add back WordPad in Windows 11. I need this program a lot and Microsoft removed it. That sucks and is unfair. Please add back WordPad to Windows 11.
Like you say, it looks like 23H2 doesn't give you the option to save the wallpaper image. But when you right-clicked on the example desktop image, I did notice that one of the menu options in the right-click was to "Search images with Google". But a couple of years ago, Google had to cripple that formerly great search option due to complaints about too many people using it to steal copyrighted images.
Also, the desktop spotlight images are cached in the folder of %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Assets
> that formerly great search option due to complaints about too many people using it to steal copyrighted images.
"steal", if it exists and it can be freely accessed on a webpage, it's free 🏴☠
@@charginginprogresss Actually, no.
Never combine taskbar buttons FINALLY. Never should've gone away in the first place, but at least they're rectifying it now.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, stats for Windows 11 remain stagnant as not many (including businesses) have upgraded to Windows 11 as they are still using Windows 10.
Yes, it has pretty slow adoption.
Personally I'm waiting for Windows 13.7
@@ethimself5064 13.3.7
Businesses only update when support runs out. So in 2025 Windows 11 will skyrocket.
@@GrigRP
They will probably go straight to Windows 12 by then.
What I love the most about this video is the forhead tension. It completely shadows everything else.
0:19 When someone says "I like Linux" nobody bats an eye.
But when I say "I like Windows" then everyone loses their minds! - Joker.
Jokes aside, it really shows that in the internet, you aren't allowed to have differing opinions
It's not about shilling, it's all about .... sending a message,
13:35 you can save the spotlight image or any desktop background image, is stored inside folder:
c:\Users\%Username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\CachedFiles\CachedImage_resolution_.jpg
25:00 sidenote , you (as many other reviewers) miss out that some apps, including paint and notepad got a settings menu(right side wheel), where you can change theme and other things.
Pro/Enterprise windows includes hyper V which is virtual machine software solution of MS.
Some really cool features in this one, W11 is getting closer and closer to being tempting to daily drive. Given that you're an ultrawide monitor user though, I'm surprised by how little flak I've heard you give MS for the continued avoidance of arguably the most basic taskbar functionality of all; moving it to the side to free up precious vertical screen space. I get that they really want that MacOS vibe for whatever reason, but their own forums and feedback hub make it pretty clear that this feature isn't quite the edge-case they like to pretend it is.
This. I absolutely hate that I can't use a vertical taskbar anymore. So far I've been using StartAllBack to fix this issue, but I really dislike having to buy a third party program to have such basic functionality.
This. A million times this.
Just used an activation from your sponsor - excellent service btw, they were very helpful when I needed to sort out an issue I had inadvertently caused.
Dude! Where does you computer think you are? -15F? Brrrrr
You're the first one to notice. I set it to an Arctic research station as a joke. 🤷♂️
The Virtual drive is a great addition, I use it to make multi boot system, windows 10, windows 11 and linux mint so at startup I get the choice to start and run any system what's good is you still have access to all data whatever system you run. I must add that I did it by manually creating the virtual drives(just like this new addon does but manually) and installed the different systems using .iso's with if I remember, either ventoy or rufus following a tutorial.
Virtual Hard Drive is a big gamechanger. I so appreciate Microsoft for designing explorer to finally let tabs be opened on one window, it's a helpful feature.
I personally don't care much about backing up data on my computer though, but I do back up on my external harddisk drive.
Another upgrade I really like is that now we can have dark theme mode applied to all apps and whatever. I use dark themes for everything.
Thanks for the preview. Lots of new features to look forward to. There is a rumor that 23H2 will not be available to unsupported systems even with the current by-pass commands.
MS can easily push a scanner anytime they want within any update package to recheck a system, but yes, for a major update like this then I'd expect that scanner to be included as a pre-check.
I wouldn't be that sure. Imo as long as windows server is around, there will always be somewhat easy ways to install windows 11 on an incompatible system. Eg windows server never complains about compatibility. And it already runs on version 23H2
@@onkelfabs6408 Thanks. I didn't know that.
@@ChrisM541 A new feature update has to be accomplished through a new ISO. They are not included in the normal Windows Update.
Amazing video, excited to see where win11 is going. But could you potentially make a video or short explaing how to fully disable widgets. I cant uninstall them and i never use them. They are annoying and i cant find what service they are to disable their startup. If anyone has an answer please let me know. And as always great video.
I'll look into it. Maybe make it part of a tips video.
You can turn them off. Maybe that's different from disabling. Personalization, taskbar, then switch off widgets.
I love your transparent browser. I never would have thought about that, now you have inspired me!
I'm probably wrong, but AI seems to be the lastest buzzword that has no practical use for most people. At least not any time really soon. I realize it will be used quite a bit behind the scenes, but for the individual user, in it's current form, it's just a toy.
You're basically right. It's not real AI. Basically just language models. It's not actually thinking. I did another video on it about a year ago.
Chat GPT is quite useful for a lot of text handling tasks like creating summaries, lists, translations and grammar/spelling corrections. It can write an email for you.
And in some cases it's a superior search engine.
We'll see, but I don't know if it will catch on for most users. It seems like it has some pretty specific use cases, but you have to know what you are doing to be able to take advantage of it. I'm not sure that people will take the time to learn it. The number of people who can't even do a basic google search well is astonishing.@@lars9925
I like your videos. Could I make a suggestion? I think it would be neat if you could ID "chapters" or "segments" to the video. Hopefully that'd be possible. Thanks for the videos, keep up the good work!
James Cameron who made Terminator, warned us about AI but we didn't listen
I agree, I'm a little uneasy about it. I made another video about a year ago on it.
I agree with you on that
Spielberg made a movie on the subject too. But I like AI for coding. Very useful.
By the time SkyNet became self-aware it had spread into millions of computer servers all across the planet. Ordinary computers in office buildings, dorm rooms, everywhere. It was software, in cyberspace. There was no system core. It could not be shut down.
There is still hope!
I hate that they removed Clean Disk from MyPC->C->Properties... Now i need to write CLEAN in Start menu to find that setting... Question - WHY did they removed that option? It was here for years in any disk properties menu 😢
I got a new laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed last week. It was definitely a shock at first. But I'm getting used to it. I'm learning to use the search to get to things I need. I love having tabs on the file explorer. People don't like change. I get that. I'm not a power user. And I love learning new interfaces. I went through a phase where I was trying Linux distros just to try the interfaces.
I mean it's great people wanna try new things but most people work on system and really don't want to bother with learning something new and getting to know that it wasn't even better then old os.
Having tabs on file explorer (as well as notepad) is by far my favorite feature. I use it ALL the time lol.
There are rare cases where opening zip and rar files directly is not a good idea. Not all compressed files are images, so the best way is for user to choose if they want to enable or disable opening "zip" or "rar" files directly.
I feel like if Windows was open source it would be a lot better
Best we can hope for is ReactOS to get up to snuff.
Definitely LOTS of cool features. Bring on Win 11 23H2. Thanks 4 sharing. Cheers !!👀👀👀👀
CoPilot replaces Cortana
Yes.
The RGB stuff doesn't change the color of your computer case anyway. For that you would need a different powder coating, or some paint, or markers, etc.
Just switched back to 11 after going back to 10 for a bit, and i must say.. It looks real cleaner than 10 does. The rounded corners just seem more comfortable to me and its honestly slowly becoming better and better, I like it so far and will keep trying it out :))
When I updated to 23H2 my monitor would lose signal randomly while playing Kingdom Come Deliverance, and the only way to recover would be to manually reboot the pc with power or reset button, so I uninstalled it. I'm not positive that was the issue but it started right after I installed it and it hasn't happened since I uninstalled it. So for now I'm sticking with 22H2.
Co-pilot - how do I remove all the bloat and spy ware?
Copilot: Easy - just install Windows 7! The last Windows-Version without bullshit! But unfortunatly it's not supportet anymore. So, I guess you have to switch to Linux to get a clean system! I'm sorry, but I have been build by Microsoft! :-(
Finally Windows 11 is becoming its own thing and not just a skin in top of 10. Desktop backup and developer mode and improved mouse feedback latency for games, better dpi for my 1440p monitors, and led management without relying on horrible software like Asus Crate or MSI mystic make this a must have from Windows 10
All this coming from someone who has ALWAYS stood against windows 11.
Point being?
Im using w11 for a few months now ..and i dont miss w10 after using it for years...w11 feels faster also im still getting use to it but all new things require time to learn and get used to
@wikingkrig5801you don’t know what you’re talking about. Windows 11 is significantly faster than Windows 10
Yeah pathetic validation of liking windows spotlight wallpapers is really helping making the case for windows 11 😂
@viewspace8020 there is an issue if u use unsupported hardware. If ur in 21h2 wanna upgrade to 23h2 u have to re install Windows... its a pain!. Since 23h2 is the last.. its worthless to upgrade
Spotlight on Desktop is a thing in 22H2...
And FINALLY Never combine... however, I don't like how it pushes the other not open apps over, I want them to stay on the left, and then 'open windows' collect to the right - like XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 etc all did!
Also, i'm on 22H2, Everything works in Dark mode, including Paint.... so I don't know what you have done with yours :)
windows ai is a no go for me, just more personal data that microsoft gets to sell
i wish they could resolve performance issues, latency and stuff. Also making more easy to delete/ disable things that we don't use (also called bloatware), not to mention it also doesn't stay with some sneaky process/service/task in the background
You mean ..To tackle the REAL issues with Windows, Not Lipstick On A Pig Mentality.
Great video thanks. Chapters would be a great addition to these types of videos.
still no 4k scaling 200% support in windows explorer, whenever you want to show icons full size. sometimes i wonder if those engineers did use their eyes before releasing software.
I would change one thing about the Explorer, both sides needs a little arrow so the user can open and close easily the panel only when needed.
Wow, it is so much more customizable. I like the Windows 10 UI in setting up groups with app icons. Combine with the Windows 11 engine under the hood.
Good presentation on Win OS. Please keep it up. You are clear and easy to follow,
It's odd they removed file history from settings app but I guess they really want to force you to use one drive. I won't do it. But the other backup feature that is extremely useful and was never part of the settings app (though at one point you could access it via settings app) is the Windows 7 backup system, now called "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)". You can use it to do scheduled data backups but the real beauty of it is you can use it to create a bare metal restore backup of your current installation. And even if you didn't create the recovery disk - you can still install a fresh copy of windows, then restore the system backup from within the new installation. Very handy. Great for porting your OS to a new hard drive too.
The virtual drive needs to have its disk letter C: D: or whatever expanded to allow for a second letter or a number such as D1, D2, D3. This would allow virtual disks to be assigned to apps or to multiple uses. If assigned to an App then backing up a virtual drive automatically becomes a single app backup and data management would be easier especially if restores were needed.
There's so much legacy code that treats drive letters as a single character that this would be utterly impossible to implement without breaking everything.
However, it could in theory be exposed to the operating system as a UNC path.
27:40 VHD's aren't something new...They were already present in Disk Management MMC tool.
how is nobody mentioning the biggest change and improvement which is the option to set "never group taskbar buttons" and to re-enable "show labels" this is by far the biggest and most impactful change there is. I've been running and dealing with crashes on the Canary version of windows 11 just to have the never group taskbar buttons.
Great video, thanks! A feature I hope is that MS impliments label tags for files. I have a very large amount os FLACS and Wav files and would like a way to right click on a file and mark it with a tag and have it visual in the file explorer. Right now I use the app "Files" from the MS store, but it is very buggy.
I like the in-built virtual drive, and as you demonstrated it with Bitlocker that's a game-changer .. Thanks!! ;)
Can't wait to see what you do to this version of windows
Just like all previous versions, upgrades etc most new features people dont need, arent aware of, or if they do know of forget theyre there ...same on phones ios & android....
the vast majority of users just want and use the basic features and be able to find them easily...
Interesting, I had a hope when you showed the ungrouping. However, the one feature I really, really want - the ability to not have my task bar at the bottom!
usinbg System image on a separate drive is good too to do a mirror back up of you working drive too
I like how organized is everything around him :)
Nice, I have been on Windows 11 now for about 2 years and its been fine, like windows 10 with missing features. I really like some of the items you talked about, it give me some ideas for the clients I support.
One good update would limiting unnecessary background services hogging all the resources.
You can move tabs in 22h, it's just a "bit"... finicky, you have to move the tab you want to move a bit further then half the distance of the tab you want to move it next to, wait till that tab 'jumps' to it's new position and then let go of the tab. Anyway, does the "restore open windows" work when you had tabs open?
I wonder if we can finally reposition the "start panel" from the lower bottom of the screen to the right side of the screen as I am so hardwired to it that not having this particular option inW11 is a deal breaker to me.
Your channel is my favorite. So interesting and useful. respect from Georgia (country) 👍
@cybercpu you forgot my favorite! The new screen recording function built into Windows snipping tool, also included in the Win + Shift +S shortcut
Impossible to activate secure boot despite having followed several tutorials to modify the BIOS settings etc... etc... So impossible to update to Windows 11. Your video solved the problem, many thanks for this tutorial. You are my savior !
Great video! File explorer update and virtual drive seems useful.
Windows 11 rocks!
I've installed it in 2021 & never looked back!
Cool heads-up, CyberCPU Tech. Oh, you mean "file-explorer"!:)
With the addition of 'open shell menu' and a few other tweaks, on my laptop, I am happy with windows 11. I'm still on win 7 for my other computers though. They are too well set to tasks to change.
People often disagree with me when I say this, but I REALLY wish Microsoft would add some tools to the desktop to sort icons such as either....
1. Use a Fences-like solution where users can put files and icons into labelled boxes
or
2. Add pages to the desktop, similar to what we have for smart phones, where the user can have several pages for keeping files and icons that are on their desktop on specific pages. To add to that, they should be able to label their desktop pages, as well.
Anyway, for most office employees, this would help keep their shit more organized on their desktop. I can't tell you how many times people have come to our Desktop Support team saying that they can't find a file on their desktop, and it turns out that they ended up dragging it another folder because their desktop because it's so cluttered with icons.
Good to see M$ putting back settings on the taskbar that worked perfectly fine before... :D :D
I find the more I use Paint the more usefull it is , it's quick for explaining something to someone say over an email or use phone link to send as MMS,
quick picture mod with arrows and text and making a universal diagram that doesn't need 3rd part software and so on.
I like the Bing Wallpaper app more than Windows Spotlight. The difference is that Bing is more up to date with the seasons and the pictures are more interresting for me personaly. 😀
I'm running Linux but one thing I love is reading the comments on a Windows new feature video and how viewers are giving their 2 cents worth. Nice.
Creating and attaching VHDs has been supported since Windows 10 via Computer Management -> Disk Management. So it's not a new feature, just something they have now incorporated into the Settings app that was previously less accessible.
I simply would like to have the ability to move the taskbar to the left side of the screen as I have found that it increase work productivity because I can see at glance on what file I want to click if I have multiple excels open at the same time.
Hi. Thank you for all good info. Question: why are desktop icons migrate when multiple screen changes, or when I use remote desktop? So annoying.
Talk about reinventing the wheel, we used have that in windows xp and windows 7.